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Wiener The saga continues
The efforts of Norbert Wiener’s biographers always will be shadowed by I Am a Mathematician. This, his own biography, is likely to overwhelm other attempts to write his story - He was able as a writer, engaging personally, and he ably perceived threads of significance as he viewed his own life.
A fair helping of subdued vanity aside, the threading never seems overstressed. This is important because, on the face of it, Wiener’s work, which ranged from estimations of Brownian motion to artillery shell trajectories and beyond may appear disparate, even topsy-turvy, in the light of history.
Unrelated
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Deaths
Hubert Selby Jr. Dies at 75 -NYT, Apr 27, 2004
One year ago on this Radio weblog
Derby Day
Gould threads
Decoration Day
Also
Abstract Strange flavored blast news
Late Edition - ABSTRACT - North Korea's state media reports that women in Ryongchon, site of deadly railroad explosion, ran into blazing buildings to save treasured portraits of Kim Jong Il before searching for their children; such tales of sacrifice are staple of country's propaganda mythology; speculation about explosion is swirling; Kim Jong Il has not been seen or heard from since accident; Chinese state television reports that he left Beijing mission for home on Apr 21, and South Korean reports say his train passed through Ryongchon about 'eight hours before blast;' North Korea refuses to allow foreign journalists to visit site, and has even ignored Chinese offers of treatment for victims at hospitals in Dandong; South Korea is sending aid by ship after North Korea refuses to allow relief goods to arrive by truck; Why were so many children injured, why were so many blinded? Were they lined up facing the tracks when the deadly railroad explosion occured? If they werent lined up for Baby Kim, were they lined up for Daddy Kim? -NYT, April 29, 2004
My Cyberarchive
The Apollo Guidance Computer site At MIT
NASA Office of Logic Desgn - A scientific study of the problems of digital engineering for space flight systems,
with a view to their practical solution. 25-years ago
Between Human and Machine - Feedback, Control, and Computing Before Cybernetics (Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology) by David A. Mindell
Andre Marie Ampere - The Free Dictionary.com
Cybernetics timeline - The Americn Society of Cybernetcs
The Cybernetics Society - Call for authors
Society for the History of Technology -Say no more
History of Recent Science & Technology site At MIT
Spymasher described -Images Journal |
Let the Gehry MIT slide show begin
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